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From: andree@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: CPM-68K and market question? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 23:12:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 23:12:23 1983
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uokvax!andree    Oct 26 00:37:00 1983

No, the cheapest non-Unix 68000 system is NOT $5k. That was for a system with
quality hardware throughout (if you consider the s-100 bus capable of
supporting such). You can scrape almost 2K off of that by going to cheap
components. (5 or 3" floppies, short bus, slow memory, etc).

The point is that such a system would be bearable. The low end Unix systems
I've looked at (Fortune, RS-16) were slow. Slower than my z80, in fact. This
is due to the many trips that Unix takes to the disk. The cheap Unices were
on cheap hard disk with stepper motors for seeking. A disk fast enough to
support Unix well (voice coil motor) still costs about $4k to the end user.

Of course, the 4.2bsd file system may fix that. If I can buy a 4.2 box for
< $10K, please tell me where!

	<mike